Location: Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France

BORN MIDDLESBROUGH, 1889. SON OF THE LATE, JOHN CASSIDY, 59 BARNSLEY STREET, HULL & AT THIS ARMY ADDRESS. EDUCATED IN HULL. FORMER DOCK LABOURER. ENLISTED HULL, 06/08/1915. EX 26752 EYR. SERVED WITH THE BEF NOVEMBER 1916. TRANSFERRED TO THE DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED DURING THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, 26/03/1918, AGED 29. UNMARRIED. […]

BORN HULL 1882. SON OF THE LATE WILLIAM THOMAS & BETSEY LUCINDA CHAPMAN, HULL. MARRIED CATHERINE ELIZABETH MASON, ON 09/10/1915, AND LIVED AT 32 HEYWWOD STREET, MOSS SIDE. OCCUPATION GIVEN WAS 'TRAVLLER'. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT 10 INCHES TALL, 155 LBS WEIGHT, 38 INCH CHEST, HAZEL EYES AND BLACK HAIR,A SCAR ON HIS RIGHT JAW. HE ENLISTED […]

BORN BEVERLEY 1880. ELDEST SON OF CLARA WALLIS (1856-1908) & LEONARD HENRY CHARLTON (1856-1929), OF 31 PARK AVENUE, HULL. HIS MOTHER, ANNIE WRIGHT (1855-1887) DIED WHEN HE WAS EIGHT YEARS OLD. HE HAD ONE SISTER, MABEL AND TWO HALF BROTHERS, GEORGE AND SYDNEY. A FORMER SOLDIER. HE HAD SERVED IN THE BOER WAR WITH THE YORKSHIRE HUSSA […]

BORN HULL 1896. SON OF WILLIAM JAMES CHARTER (1870-1946) & REBECCA CHARTER (1843-1912) HIS STEP MOTHER, WAS VIOLETTA CHARTER, OF 3 BELMONT AVENUE, EDINBURGH STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS). EMPLOYED AS A WATERMAN. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 09/11/1914, AGED 19 YEARS AND 19 DAYS. HIS ARMY MEDICAL RECORDS, DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT, 5.5 INCHES […]

BORN SEVENOAKS, KENT 1898. SON OF JAMES HENRY & ELIZABETH CHATFIELD, OF CHIPSTEAD, SEVENOAKS, KENT. HE ENLISTED IN MAIDSTONE, KENT. SERVED AS PTE, 11/386, 11TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. LIVED AT 19 SELBY STREET, HULL. THIS WAS HIS 1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS. HE WAS CAPTURED DURING THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, ON 21/03/1918. HE DIED NE […]

Born Hull 18/02/1898. Only child of William Harold Chew (1873-1935) & Minnie Frances Chew (1870-1946) of 16 Russell Terrace, Norfolk Street, Hull (CWGC address). Ex Blundell's worker. He enlisted in Hull, on 01/03/1916, aged 18 years and 1 month. Described as 5 foot, 9 inches tall, 138 lbs weight, & 36 inch chest. Arrived in Fran […]

BORN HULL 1887. LIVED IN SUTTON. SON OF CAPTAIN, T E COCKER, OF 5 CONNAUGHT PLACE, HYDE PARK, LONDON. A SERGEANT IN THE SHANGHAI VOLUNTARY CORP. . PROMOTED TO LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY AND ACTING CAPTAIN, OF THE 'A' BATTERY, 153RD ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY. AWARDED THE BELGIUM CROIX DE GUERRE FOR GALLANTRY. HE WAS ATTACHED TO ' […]

BORN HULL 1889. SON OF GEORGE HENRY COGGRAVE (1848-1930) & SARAH ANN ADAMS (1853-1944), OF 3, GOSHEN PLACE, JAMES STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 1, CLARENCE PLACE, PORTLAND STREET, HULL. SON OF A YEAST LABOURER. ONE OF TWELVE CHILDREN AND SEVEN SONS. HUSBAND OF SARAH HARDY (1891-1929), OF 4, YORK TERRACE, HODGSON STREET, HULL (WAR P […]

BORN HULL 23/10/1897. BAPTISED AT ST CHARLES BORROMEO, HULL, ON 14/02/1897. HIS FATHER WAS BORN, NEWPORT, IRELAND. ONLY SON OF JAMES COONEY (1864-1949) & ANN ELIZABETH McMANUS (1873-1966), OF 7, PARADISE ROW, CHARLOTTE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE HAD FIVE SISTERS. EMPLOYED AS AN ERRAND BOY AND A DOCK WORKER WHEN WAR BE […]

BORN HULL 1888. SON OF JAMES & JESSIE LOUISA (WATSON), OF  109, YORK STREET, HULL. MARRIED 1908. BEFORE ENLISTING HE HAD WORKED AT SISSONS, STONEFERRY, SINCE HE WAS 14. HE ENLISTED AT THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND SERVED IN EGYPT AND THE DARDENELLES BEFORE ARRIVING IN FRANCE IN MARCH 1916. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 21/09/1916, AGED 28. COMMEM […]

BORN HULL 1895. SON OF MATTHEW HENRY CRANSWICK (1860-1928) & THE LATE KATE WRIGHT (1863-1909), OF 14 ROXBURGH STREET, PRINCES AVENUE, HULL. THIS WAS HIS 1918 ABSENT VOTERS ADDRESS. ONE OF EIGHT CHILDREN. HIS BROTHER, CAPTAIN, WILLIAM CRANSWICK, EYR, LIVED AT THE SAME ADDRESS AND 6 VINE TERRACE, NORWOOD STREET, HULL. MATHEW ENLISTED HULL […]

BORN HULL 1875. SCULCOATES. SON OF JOHN AKAM CROWTHER (1847-1919) & HARRIET SEDDON (1848-1919), OF 9 AMY TERRACE, AND 5 TENNYSON AVENUE, FERRIES STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS).  EMPLOYED AS A COOPER. HE ENLISTED IN HULL, AS, PRIVATE, 6042 NORTHUMBERLAND FUSILIERS. HE ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 09/09/1915. TRANSFERRED TO THE 21ST MACH […]

BORN HULL 1880. SON OF THOMAS DANCE AND THE LATE THIRLIZA DANCE, OF 10, VILLA TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET,  HULL. BROTHER TO GEORGE, CHARLES, FLORENCE AND ELIZA. HE MARRIED A WIDOW, FANNY MARIA MEARS, AT HARLEY STREET, HULL, ON 11/05/1907. SHE HAD TWO SONS, CHARLES AND JOHN. THEY LIVED AT 5, VULCAN TERRACE, SEWARD STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS […]

Born Hull, 1886. Son of Edwin Dawson (1850-1908) and Emily Redman Bowser (1855-1930), of Hull and 12, Winchester Mount Armley Leeds. His father was a railway signal fitter. He had three brothers and three sisters. He was the Town Postman, for Armley, Leeds. Married Beatrice Illingworth, at Leeds on 28 Sep 1912. Formerly (149768) Hull Ro […]

BORN HULL 1898. ELDEST SON OF JAMES (1872-1934) AND ANNIE DENT (1875-1911), OF 21 EDWARDS AVENUE, BUCKINGHAM STREET, HULL. SECOND OF FIVE CHILDREN. A SCHOOL NEWSBOY. EMPLOYED LATER AT EARLE'S YARD. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED IN THE 15TH DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED IN ACTION, ON 31/03/1918, AGED 19. UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEF […]

Fred was born in Walkington in 1896, the son of William Jackson Dinsdale and Mary Dinsdale who were both born in Walkington and lived in a cottage on East End, almost next door to other men who had lost their lives. (Cross, Oliver, Dinsdale). Fred enlisted in Beverley and by the 25th March 1918, the day before Fred died, the 5th Ba […]

BORN HULL 1884. WAS A BOARDER AT VARIOUS ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN HULL. SERVED WITH THE 1/4TH YORKSHIRE HUSSARS (ALEXANDRA, PRINCE OF WALES OWN). HE WAS KILLED DURING THE GERMAN SPRING OFFENSIVE, ON 26/03/1919, AGED 32. COMMEMORATED ON THE POZIERES MEMORIAL TO THE MISSING. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS WIDOW, ADA DIXON AT THIS ADDRESS […]

Eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Dobson, of 14, Oxford Terrace, Porter St., Hull. Employed by the North Eastern Railways, as a crane driver, on Queens Dock, Hull. Enlisted in 1915. Served with the Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment) 1st Bn. Reported missing on 26/03/1918. His death was confirmed in the Hull Daily Mail, on 28/01/19120. *

BORN HULL 1883. SON OF JOHN & MARTHA DOYLE, OF 56 TERRACE STREET, WEST STREET, SOWERBY BRIDGE, YORKSHIRE. HUSBAND OF FLORENCE KATE DOYLE OF 26 COTTON TERRACE, BARNSLEY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND THIS CWGC ADDRESS. THEY HAD FOUR CHILDREN. HE WORKED AS A DOCK LABOURER. HE ENLISTED AT BEVERLEY. EX PRIVATE, 24775 EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. […]

BORN HULL 1899. SON OF WILLIAM HENRY AND EMMA DRAKE, OF 17, MONA TERRACE, CAVE STREET, HULL AND 8, LORNE STREET, HULL (WAR PENSION ADDRESS). HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 19/09/1917, AGED 18. ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 01/04/1918. SERVED WITH THE 22ND DURHAM LIGHT INFANTRY. KILLED AT THE SOMME, ON 26/04/1918, AGED 18. HE HAD SERVED IN THE ARMY FOR […]